Block ads on your networks now.

The system designed to follow us around the net with ads is now a blinking national security & human rights threat.

And the incentives are all wrong. From platforms to publishers & ad networks they've spent every effort to make sure those ads get to our devices.

Now, predictably, the tech is going to dictators & being used to hack us.

Story: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-09-14/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/revealed-israeli-cyber-firms-developed-an-insane-new-spyware-tool-no-defense-exists/0000018a-93cb-de77-a98f-ffdf2fb60000

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 NEW INVESTIGATION: Prominent #Putin's critic in exile hacked with #Pegasus #spyware in #Berlin. 

#europe has a massive spyware problem.

Yet many #EU countries have sat on the sidelines.

Still,  hacks keep coming, harming EU #cybersecurity  #humanrights & #nationalsecurity 

Worse yet, #Germany thinks it can simultaneously be a Pegasus customer & not contribute to the problem.

Embarrassing.

We @beb4ab43 did tech analysis in investigation led by Access Now https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/13/pegasus-infection-meduza-founder/

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 Elon Musk sees #Ukranian military secrets via #starlink movements.

Russia must've realized this & bamboozled him w/ fav old trick: nuclear threats.

So Musk intervened to stop an attack🤦

What stops 🇷🇺 from manipulating / flattering Musk into revealing what he knows about #ukraine  1/

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 🚨 Update your #apple
 products immediately!

Last week we @beb4ab43 discovered a new #Pegasus zero-click exploit chain.

(No clicking required to infect latest iOS with #spyware 

Found while checking civil society.

Disclosed to Apple which rushed a patch.

Takeway? Yet again scrappy civil society = the #cybersecurity early warning system for billions of users.

https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/

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 BREAKING: #Poland's Senate investigation into #Pegasus hacking released.

Found "gross violations of constitutional standards"

Says 2019 elections where #Pegasus was used against opposition leadership were not fair.

Says procurement & use of Pegasus was illegal under Polish law & asks prosecutor to investigate current and former ministers.

#polska #pis  #spyware  #cybersecurity #hacking 

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